[99391] in North American Network Operators' Group
ipv6/v4 naming nomenclature [Was: Apple Air...]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barrett Lyon)
Wed Sep 19 18:38:24 2007
In-Reply-To: <A34A1864-4F37-480F-8DC5-3A979D500AFB@virtualized.org>
Cc: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>, nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Barrett Lyon <blyon@blyon.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:35:08 -0700
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sep 18, 2007, at 1:30 PM, David Conrad wrote:
>
> HI,
>
> On Sep 18, 2007, at 5:45 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>> Please please please, for the sake of a semi-'standard', please
>> only use
>> the following forms in those cases:
>>
>> www.<domain>
>> www.ipv6.<domain>
>> www.ipv4.<domain>
>>
>> Don't come up with any other variants. The above form is what is in
>> general use around the internet and what some people will at least
>> try
>> to use in cases where a DNS label has both an AAAA and A and one
>> of them
>> doesn't work. You can of course add them, it is your DNS, but with
>> the
>> above people might actually try them.
>
> What RFC (or other standards publication) is this documented in?
Where did the www.ipv6 and www.ipv4 "standard" come from? As for end-
users such as normal non-network people, having a standard that adds
more characters than necessary (that eventually may become arbitrary)
seems rather silly. Why wouldn't w4.<domain> or w6.<domain> suffice
for this purpose rather than making it overly scientific? I can
understand the want to use ipv4 etc to separate out other services
such as DNS, SMPT, etc, but everyone does what they want with those
services anyway.
-Barrett
